| A Child's Garden of Verses: With original illustrations Contributor(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798727841693 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $5.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Boys & Men |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.39 lbs) 126 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Child's Garden of Verses is a book of poetry for children. Stevenson dedicated the poems to his nurse Cummy (Alison Cunningham), who cared for him during his many childhood illnesses. The collection includes some of Stevenson's most famous poems, including "The Land of Counterpane", "My Shadow and "The Lamplighter". Many of the poems describe the imaginative life of the child. In "Pirate Story", for example, the garden becomes the setting for pirate adventure. "The Land of Nod" describes the dream land that children can only visit when they are asleep. Some of the poems, particularly those in "The Child Alone" section evoke the loneliness of being young, ill and without companions (certainly Stevenson was here remembering his own childhood). Children in these poems (for example "The Unseen Playmate". "My Ship and I", and "My Kingdom") use their imaginations to entertain themselves, rather than the company of a friend. |